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New nonprofit climate group forms, aims to resurrect climate.gov, National Climate Assessment and other lost data www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/c...

Oh you sweet summer child.

seasonal forecast models aren’t just for making seasonal forecasts

Surely this will be the payment that finally gets the extortionist to stop demanding money

This fellowship was a huge part of the reason I am continuing to do climate science, and it has supported so many incredible people. These effects on early-career researchers, who do some of the most impactful work, is going to have long-lasting implications for science and scientists.

if only there were something like a library for data

Latest NMME ENSO forecasts are cooler (0.25–0.5 °C) than last the ones from last month. (I don't have CFSv2)

It's surreal to sit on a call with NOAA cooperative institute employees actively forecasting hazards that may affect the US while the US Senate effective terminates those employees and their work. The American public does not yet realize the devastation inflicted on our scientific institutions

I made a (probably incomplete) local copy b/c the enso blog is my source for all things enso. Backup sites? There’s always the wayback machine web.archive.org/web/20250623...

So long, and thanks for all the fish! 😢https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/enso/hitchhikers-guide-june-2025-enso-update

This is a giant loss. The ENSO Blog in particular was an invaluable resource.

It’s been a joy to be a contributor to the climate.gov Polar Vortex blog the last two years- we had so many more topics we wanted to cover. It’s been a real outlet for me to share my love of the atmosphere. 💜 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I don't even know what to say. Climate.gov is where I became a science communicator. They took a chance on a funny scientist and let me be me (weird analogies included.) Climate.gov is an example of not just government done right, but Comms done right. Pick up these folks asap.

Home of the ENSO blog and more www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

How do a climate-scale patterns, like La Niña, influence extreme weather events, like tornado outbreaks? I break it down in this ENSO Blog post, plus discuss this hyperactive 2025 season in particular. 🌪️

@kmalloy.bsky.social talks ENSO and 🌪️

It's outrageous that NASA GISS, one of the best earth & space science labs in the world, is being kicked out of its Columbia home. The outstanding scientists who work there can't say that publicly, but I can. And so can you --- call your reps, esp. (but not only) if you live in NYC or NY state.

an economist engaging in scientific fraud implies that this is the very first academic fraud ever existed in the literature (to their knowledge).

🌧️📉 Can we predict tropical cyclone precipitation (TCP) at subseasonal scales? Our new study shows that biases in TC occurrence forecasts limit skill in TCP (and total rainfall too!) With @mktippett.bsky.social and @scamargo.bsky.social journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

Thunderstorm research lead at Gallagher with multiple locations available, requires a PhD in climate/atmospheric science/meteorology

A major loss to our understanding of how extreme weather events are affecting us. There are 3 alternative databases I will be using: Gallagher Re: www.ajg.com/gallagherre/... Aon: img.clients.aonunited.com/Web/Aon5/%7B... EM-DAT: www.emdat.be

On Monday, NOAA decommissioned its snow and ice data products at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, a devastating blow to the sea ice, glacier, and snow observation community.

Qué buena oscilación! (QBO) Great to have a post up with @seasonedchaos.bsky.social. Read about one of the less known, yet better behaved, oscillations in the climate system and how it impacts our surface conditions.

I'm indebted to US science (through the University of Oklahoma, Columbia University, and the NSF) for playing a big role in my education & career to-date. I am lost for words. I am devastated for friends and colleagues affected by this constant attack on science. Stay strong.

what you expect (climate) vs what you get (weather) www.climate.gov/news-feature...

'Overall, we find that the effects of internal climate variability on GMST and the uncertain relationship between GMST and regional extremes may lead to inaccurate attribution conclusions using the part of the [World Weather Attribution] approach examined here' journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

Warming stripes on the road to OCP @lamont.columbia.edu, with a question that is now more relevant than ever given the state of climate science in the US today. What is next?

Please call your reps. This is way beyond any debate about action on climate - rather, this would blind our nation so that we don't even know or understand what is happening in our atmosphere and oceans.

Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects. Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):

"We call on scholars, students, administrators, and staff here at Columbia to reject such efforts to dominate universities." Letter from History faculty at Columbia to President Armstrong (with complete list of signatories) www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

OTD 2005 Lee C. Bollinger gave the annual Benjamin N. Cardozo Lecture before the Association of the Bar of the City of New York on academic freedom president.columbia.edu/content/card...

Twenty prominent law professors have joined a letter defending academic freedom and the First Amendment against the Trump Administration’s recent treatment of Columbia. Among those from right of center: Michael McConnell, Eugene Volokh, Keith Whittington, Steve Calabresi, and Richard Epstein.

Check out the timely early online release of @mktippett.bsky.social and I's paper Forecasting U.S. Tornado Outbreak Activity and Associated Environments in the Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS) 🌪️ doi.org/10.1175/WAF-...

2/ This blog post, a follow up to a LinkedIn post from last week bit.ly/41ZscrK, contains testimonials from Kettle, Pelmorex, Sylvera, Rainmaker, Jua and more. Read more here: earthmover.io/blog/noaa-data

Curious about climate patterns? The new ERA Explorer app lets you compare 85 years of climate data worldwide. Analyse climatological averages at any map point or explore month-by-month data.Dive deeper with ERA Explorer! era-explorer.climate.copernicus.eu?lat=50.86&ln... #C3S #beautifuldata

Thanks to the RAA for speaking up for NOAA.

Columbia Law School has perhaps the strongest public law faculty in the country. This is what they think of the recent Title VI demand letter sent to their university: balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

“Some postdoctoral fellows at Columbia are protected from losing their positions despite a lack of funding because they are part of a union” contract ends in June

Yes, I'm a climate reporter. But the story of how the Trump admin's moves are threatening science & research is bigger than climate. So I spoke w/economists, physicists, sociologists, computer scientists, health scientists, and climate researchers for this piece: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

I’d prefer to hear university officials stand up and pledge themselves to fight for the rights their students are losing. Still, given his colleagues and his audience, I don’t think Jelani Cobb is necessarily wrong to counsel individual caution. It’s just not much of a free country anymore, is it?

Nice piece by three heavyweights on the academia side of meteorology explaining NOAA’s critical importance.

I received one of the 232 NIH grant "terminations" sent to scientists at Columbia last night. My research focuses on improving maternal and child health in the US. Also affected: ongoing clinical trials, research training programs, and research centers that aim to improve the health of Americans.

Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.

Dear US colleagues, In response to the Trump administration, my university @univ-amu.fr is setting up a new program dedicated to welcoming American scientists wishing to pursue their work in France. There are several M$ in the budget. www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...

DOJ, HHS, ED, and GSA Announce Initial Cancelation of Grants and Contracts to Columbia University Worth $400 Million

rm -rf NCEI/* www.citizen-times.com/story/news/l...

Do you have a strong background, including a PhD and publication record, in weather and climate dynamics or closely related areas? Would you like to apply your skills in an interdisciplinary research project on weather impacts on health across the globe ?

Several confirmed terminations of probationary employees across NOAA today. These are good, hardworking, dedicated public servants working to better our country and its people whose lives, careers, and livelihoods are being destroyed w/o cause. Absolutely heartbroken. This is wrong.